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Show LOOKS AS IF JONES AND WOLCAST HAVE REALLY "SPLIT IIP" Wolgast s Signing to Meet Murphy Was the Last Straw. (By liitgrnatlonal News Service.) BT ED OUBIbET. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. 4 'It look, to me, from an Alplao slant, that Tommy Jonoe hM blown his Job. Eawther. he haan't blown the poalsh. but It hli boon blowett b'gad ." "You aee. Tommy waa the manager of Adolphus Wolgaat. who, not many ages ago, waa acclaimed light welirht champion cham-pion of th world. To th best of our recollection, Adolphus mad the fatal mistake, of meeting WlUle Rltrhle, and when the deal waa over the light weight bauble rested on Willi' bean. That alone caused Adolphus many acre of pain, and every time he saw Tommy in the offing the pain Increased. Adolphu had to blame somebody, so why not Tommy? Tom-my? What could a manager of an ex-champlon ex-champlon do in such a caae? We don't know, ao why ahould we worry? in the meantime. Adolphu saw many stacks of gold slipping from Mm and the slip hurt horribly. Then when Tommy heehawed at Jlmmv offroth, when tha latter offered Adolphu a chance to meet Tommy Murphy on Washington' birthday, birth-day, the at raw fell that cut the camel In half. Th news reached little Adolphus. Adol-phus. He immediately clinched the match with one hand and with the other gav Tommy the gat. "To think he would leave nice good bucks paae me by. ' hiieked Adolphu. "Is enough to sink m Into my grav. Does he know what you can buy with ooo iron men?" So any fighter that Is managerleas -mi grab a nlc looking caretaker by writing writ-ing direct to Tommy J one. (message prepaid). Fred McCay wants to know whether and when Oeorge Rodel. the Boer warrior war-rior and ring performer, fought during the scraps In the Transvaal. "I fought all through that war." declares de-clares Frederick, "arid, bllme me. If I eer aaw Rodel In the scraps." Kodet rlea to remark that he beliex e Met 'ay was In the war. for h dlstlmtl-remembers dlstlmtl-remembers a tall fellow built on the lines of McCay and with an ldenti ail shape running every time tieorge charged tha enemy. "I couldn't aee hi face," chirpx Rodel. Ro-del. "for his back waa almoat faring me and he ran so fast that I could not vt within Ave feet of him." |